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How the Soviet Jew was made
- Title
- How the Soviet Jew was made / Sasha Senderovich.
- Author
- Senderovich, Sasha
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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Details
- Description
- 352 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In post-1917 Russian and Yiddish literature, films, and reportage, Sasha Senderovich finds a new cultural figure: the Soviet Jew. Suddenly mobile after more than a century of restrictions under the tsars, Jewish authors created characters who traversed space and history, carrying with them the dislodged practices and archetypes of a lost world"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Jews in popular culture > Soviet Union
- Jews in literature
- Jews in motion pictures
- Russian literature > Jewish authors > 20th century
- Yiddish literature > Soviet Union
- Jews > Soviet Union > History
- Wandering Jew in literature
- Jews
- Jews in popular culture
- Russian literature > Jewish authors
- Yiddish literature
- Russian literature
- Soviet Union
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Dispersion of the Pale -- Haunted by pogroms: David Bergelson's Judgment -- Salvaged fragments: Moyshe Kulbak's The Zelmenyaners -- The edge of the world: narratives of non-arrival in Birobidzhan -- Back in the USSR: the Wandering Jew on the Soviet screen -- The Soviet Jew as a trickster: Isaac Babel and Hershele Ostropoler -- Epilogue: Returns to the shtetl.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-1689
- ISBN
- 9780674238190
- 0674238192
- 9780674275744 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2021048963
- OCLC
- 1266212990
- Author
- Senderovich, Sasha, author.
- Title
- How the Soviet Jew was made / Sasha Senderovich.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Form:
- ebook version: Senderovich, Sasha. How the Soviet Jew was made. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2022 9780674275744 (OCoLC)1323254768
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-1689